James Bond 007: VARGR #5
Apr. 18th, 2016 03:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

"The nature of Bond’s role in the world hasn’t really changed. Fleming was certainly responding, in several ways, to the end of the British Empire — sometimes in fantastical ways, sometimes, I think, in melancholy ways. Sometimes there was denial, sometimes acceptance. Which is entirely apt, because any secret intelligence service has to believe it serves a need. It was coming, in the 50s and 60s — Britain as a smaller thing in a bigger world. I can pursue that while remaining realistic about Britain’s lack of real importance on the world stage." -- Warren Ellis
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